The memory of Captain Alving looms large over his family, but he was not the paragon of virtue he appeared to be.
His wife has kept his secrets for years, but when the sins of the father are visited on the son, the family's perfect image is shattered. Mrs Alving thought she had escaped the ghosts of the past, and saved her son Oswald from them, but his return triggers a series of events that expose buried secrets and prove that history is doomed to repeat itself.
Ibsen's play was shocking in its time, and is given devastating new intensity by Eyre's translation.
***** “A masterpiece. Richard Eyre’s new version has glories too many to list” The Times
“a world that seems fixed, stable and coherent blown apart by the irredeemable past” The Guardian
